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Old 05-16-2007, 17:00 PM   #50 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by braindead View Post
I heard that Germans proudly say ´´Our Phantoms still smoke´´ or something like that . Can anybody enlighten me , what it stands for?
No smokeless engine kits. For that matter, by moving the thrust levers to zone one, the afterburners took care of the smoke problem even without the kits. The standard drill was to go to zone one just as we began to ingress the target. Otherwise, we were a very easy target for the Mark 1 eyeball sight.
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